Re: [PATCH] reboot: disable usermodehelper to prevent fs access

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:24:25PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 05 May 2011 13:32:05 +0200, Kay Sievers said:
> 
> > In case CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is not set to "", which it
> > should be on every system
> 
> If it indeed should be that on every system, shouldn't it be listed
> in feature-removal-schedule.txt?

It's the default value, but distros, and people, can and do override it
for various reasons.  Why would it be added to
feature-removal-schedule.txt?

> Does anybody have a running list of "Stuff we set by default at one time, but
> no longer recommend"?

Look at the default values for different configurations options and why
they differ in your system is about the only way that I know of, sorry.

thanks,

greg k-h